The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ The Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~this meme was inspired in part by ~ In My Mailbox~ It's a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
This was a pretty good week. I didn't get as much reading done as I had hoped, but that happens. I'm kind of stuck on the beginning of The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, # 2) by Maggie Stiefvater. Anyone read that one already? Please tell me it gets better! Also, I've been checking movietickets.com daily to see if tickets are on sale for City of Bones on Friday, August 23rd. They're not. At least not here. I have no clue who decided it would be a good idea for this movie to come out on a Wednesday. Midweek--not cool! Do you guys have your tickets yet? Oh also...I got a haircut yesterday! Isn't it amazing how much better you feel after a haircut?
Monday: Review of If I Stay (If I Stay, # 1) by Gayle Forman (4.5 Stars)
Tuesday: Top Ten Books I Wish Had a Sequel
Wednesday: Waiting on Takedown Twenty (Stephanie Plum, # 20) by Janet Evanovich
Thursday: Review of The Edge of Never (The Edge of Never, # 1) by JA Redmerski (3.5 Stars)
Friday: DNF Reviews of Love Among Pigeons & The Rising
Monday: Review of Deeper We Fall (Fall & Rise, # 1) by Chelsea M Cameron
Tuesday: Top Ten Tuesday: Books in X Setting
Wednesday: Waiting on Wednesday
Thursday: Review of Heartless (Tales of Goldstone Wood, # 1) by Anne Elisabeth Stengl & August New Release Giveaway begins (ends August 31st)
Friday: From the Ashes: City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, # 1) by Cassandra Clare
Enchanted (Woodcutter Sisters, # 1)
By: Alethea Kontis
Published: May 8th 2012 by Harcourt Children's Books
305 pages
Genre: YA, Fantasy, Fairy-Tale
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Goodreads description--It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—and a man Sunday’s family despises.
The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past - and hers?
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
By: Lewis Carroll
Published: first published 1871
228 pages
Genre: Classic, Fantasy
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Goodreads description--In 1865, English author CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastical adventure story for the young daughters of a friend. The adventures of Alice-named for one of the little girls to whom the book was dedicated-who journeys down a rabbit hole and into a whimsical underworld realm instantly struck a chord with the British public, and then with readers around the world. In 1872, in reaction to the universal acclaim *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* received, Dodgson published this sequel. Nothing is quite what it seems once Alice journeys through the looking-glass, and Dodgson's wit is infectious as he explores concepts of mirror imagery, time running backward, and strategies of chess-all wrapped up in the exploits of a spirited young girl who parries with the Red Queen, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, and other unlikely characters. In many ways, this sequel has had an even greater impact on today's pop culture than the first book
That's it for my shelves and recaps of my past and upcoming week. What did you add to your shelves this week? Any bookish news you want to talk about? Let me know!
